I've have 400+ devs acoss several states working with 25+ repos, all using a modified Gitflow.
It took a month of negotiation to get buy in, so far, it's been working for the last 2 and a half years.
And the beauty is, if a team wants to be more "agile"/more continuous, all we have to do is kill a few branches, and start building/releasing directly from master.
And the beauty is, if a team wants to be more "agile"/more continuous, all we have to do is kill a few branches, and start building/releasing directly from master.